Balance theme Grid Exclude Category

[etchattic]

Hi there

 

I'm trying to exclude 4 category's from the balance theme homepage grid.

Any snippets available?

 

Craig

[Brad Dalton]

Try these:

How to Exclude the Posts of a Specific Category from the Homepage?

http://www.studiopress.community/topic/balance-theme-excluding-category-on-home-page/#post-32650

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[etchattic]

Simply Exclude didn't work.

I've tried stopping the category by adding the // exclude posts from this category// ( the code not the words in brackets )  in the homepage loop.

Never had this problem before.

Thanks

Craig

[Brad Dalton]

Try this:

Code not displaying? grab it on Github.

You can add a comma separated list of category I.d's.

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[etchattic]

Hey Bill

I see that.  I'm trying to use the same grid that the balance theme uses.

This is my home.php code  you'll see the exclude category I tried to use.  https://gist.github.com/thewebattic/5723987

I did try add the function you showed above but nothing happened again.

Thanks for the help so far

 

Craig

 

[etchattic]

Hey still no joy here.

 

Also noticed that when I page through from the home page pagination it go's back to the home page ??

Any more advice would be appreciated

[Brad Dalton]

This code has been tested on the Balance child theme and works.

Please remove this code from your home.php file

'category__not_in' => -13, // exclude posts from this category

Then paste this code at the end of your child themes functions.php file.

Code not displaying? Grab it from Github.

Please replace the 4 category i.d's in the code with the i.d's for the categories you want to exclude posts from displaying in.

This code removes all posts assigned to 4 categories from displaying on your home page if its set to display your latest posts. The code also excludes posts from those 4 categories from displaying in paginated pages linked to the home page.

Example: page 1,2,3 etc.

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[etchattic]

Hey Bill

I added that code still no luck  even tried installing the original functions.php file and home.php and the grid still shows the the category I'm trying to exclude category-13 and reloads the home page for the pagination links.

With that in mind do you think it's possible I have settings in the Dashboard area that are conflicting with the code??

Craig

Link to the homepage http://sdesign.evokemedia.ca/wp2/

[Brad Dalton]

Please send me your login details for cPanel and WordPress and i'll take a look and fix it for you.

I have tested the code on your theme locally and i know it works but would like to help you resolve this quickly.

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[etchattic]

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[etchattic]

Hey Brad did you get my details.

 

I'll never call you bill again lol !

Craig

[Brad Dalton]

Hey Craig

Please send to [email protected]

Cannot for some reason read the private messages from anyone.

No worries about the name.

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[etchattic]

Hey brad I forwarded on my details yesterday by email.

Let me know if you got them

Thanks

Craig

[Brad Dalton]

Never got them. Not sure why.

Try [email protected]

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[etchattic]

I just resent the details now.

 

PS I also just received a failure notice for the first mail I sent

 

his is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.

Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:

[email protected]

Message will be retried for 2 more day(s)

 

Catch you later

Craig

[Brad Dalton]

Because mine is .net not .com

Which categories do you want to exclude?

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[etchattic]

Hey Brad I tried it on a top level domain no joy.

Do you know what version of wordpress the test site you got it to work on had ???    I'm just trying to eliminate wether the issue is with the grid and the latest wordpress update.

Thanks

Craig

[Brad Dalton]

3.6-beta3-24432

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[etchattic]

Ok  For anyone having this same issue.

 

I found the bug.  I have featured post widgets in the sidebar that seem to overide the Grid settings on the homepage.  No where else but on the homepage.  So if my featured posts widget selects a category  the grid automaitcally takes on that cat even if I exclude it. from the grid

Happy unbugging

 

Craig

[Brad Dalton]

Thanks for sharing this Craig.

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